The Brontë Cabinet
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mild nature of, 40, 60
pet dog of, 101, 102, 115–17, 120–21, 223
physical appearance of, 68
poetry of, 170, 173–74
religious beliefs of, 193
sampler of, 42–44, 60
walking on the moor by, 65, 92, 155
see also specific works
Brontë, Branwell, 27, 160, 221, 246, 248, 250, 253
adulterous affair of, 128, 141, 168, 186–87, 276
Angria tales of, 39, 67, 168, 170, 174, 176
artistic ambition and drawing of, 64, 67, 69, 76, 116, 229–30
childhood and adolescence of, 3, 4, 6–8, 10–12, 14–16, 19, 21, 36, 39, 44
drunkenness of, 168, 181, 186–87, 229
early writing of, 6, 19, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 39, 67, 117
illness and death of, 184, 187–88, 190, 194
little magazine of, 6, 158
poetry of, 19, 22, 67, 74–75, 76, 118, 168, 187
railway job of, 118, 128
tutoring job of, 56, 76, 118, 128, 187
walking, and walking stick of, 66–69, 73, 76, 78, 88
wooden soldiers (the “Twelves”) of, 8, 170–71
Brontë, Charlotte, 20, 27, 45–46, 74–75, 78–79, 90, 96
“bed plays” of, 9, 39
biographies of, 4–5, 91, 106, 145, 162, 240, 245, 252, 254–55, 258
burial of, 91, 242
“Charles” and “Arthur” as fictional alter egos of, 20
childhood and adolescence of, 2–19, 22–23, 36–37, 39–41, 124, 235, 251–52
Currer Bell as pseudonym of, 46, 89, 153, 170–71, 176, 229, 241
diary of, 4, 17, 19
domineering nature of, 40, 125, 171
early writing of, 2, 4–9, 11–12, 15, 26, 39, 105, 115, 135, 166–67, 200
education of, 4, 14, 19, 39–40, 64, 66, 69
on Emily, 82–84, 87, 105, 106, 172–73, 190–92
fame and literary “cult” of, 78, 89, 90, 145, 154–55, 221, 235, 238–39, 242
feminist leanings of, 57–58
governess and teaching positions of, 41, 57, 60, 64, 119, 132, 142, 165, 166
handwriting of, 126, 228–29, 250
illness and death of, 90, 121, 124, 125, 154, 183, 210, 234, 241–44
little magazine of, 6–8, 23, 158, 176
marriage and honeymoon of, 136, 153–54, 162, 216, 220, 224–27, 233–34, 243
marriage proposals of, 152, 222–24
mental illness of, 60, 66–67
miniature books created by, 4–9, 11–12, 18, 36, 124, 235, 250
needlework of, 5, 43, 52, 54, 57, 124, 265
as “old maid,” 221
poetry of, 100, 161, 238
portrait of, 235, 247, 248
pregnancy of, 243
relationship of Emily and, 169–70, 190–91
relics and memorabilia of, 238–40, 246, 247, 282
riding accident of, 226–27
shortsightedness of, 29, 40, 175–76
unfashionable clothing of, 68
unrequited love of, 142–46, 148, 149, 221
walking of, 78, 84, 88, 155
wit and humor of, 125
see also specific works
Brontë, Elizabeth, 43, 202
childhood of, 3–4, 12
illness and death of, 4, 27, 32
Brontë, Emily, xxi, xxiv, 53, 250–51
assertiveness and courage of, 83, 105–6, 239
biographies of, 162, 252, 274
Charlotte on, 82–84, 87, 105, 106, 172–73, 190–92
childhood and adolescence of, 4, 6–12, 28, 29, 36–41, 112, 252
diary papers of Anne and, 37–39, 41, 57, 64, 74, 118, 158, 161–62, 245, 248, 263, 268, 271, 278
drawings of, 159, 160
early writing of, 37–39
education of, 4, 64, 66, 118
Ellis Bell as pseudonym of, 170–71, 173, 176, 182, 184, 229
humor of, 7, 37, 183
illness and death of, 32, 89, 108, 121, 150, 172, 173, 179, 181, 183, 184, 186, 190–94, 221, 240, 246
needlework of, 41–44
pet dog of, 96–98, 100–101, 104–6, 108, 112, 115–22, 160, 191
poetry of, 41, 64–66, 74, 82–88, 92–93, 111, 139, 140, 158–60, 169–70, 173–74, 186, 200, 212, 216–17, 250
possible second novel of, 181–84
relationship of Charlotte and, 169–70, 190–91
reserved nature of, 170–71, 173
shooting prowess of, 68
teaching job of, 118–19, 165
unfashionable clothing of, 68
walking of, 64–68, 73–74, 76, 78, 81–83, 88, 118–19, 234, 268
see also specific works
Bronte, Hugh, 24, 261
Brontë, Maria, 43, 202
childhood of, 3–4, 12, 17, 28, 52
education of, 3–4
illness and death of, 4, 17, 27, 32, 52
Brontë, Maria Branwell, 14, 17, 43, 202, 264
illness and death of, 3–4, 193, 210
Brontë, Patrick, 37–38, 66–68, 78, 112, 138, 155, 161, 178, 193, 202, 210, 234
as Anglican curate of Haworth, 2–3, 15, 17, 28, 69, 221–22, 224–25, 239
Cambridge education of, 3, 14, 20
dogs of, 121–22
as father, 2–4, 8, 28, 188, 228–29
financial concerns of, 141–42
illness and death of, 238, 244–45
Irish heritage of, 3, 17, 24, 251
walking, and walking stick of, 67–69
Brontë Cottage Bed and Breakfast, 254
Brontë Myth, The (Miller), xxiv
Brontë Parsonage Museum, 122, 155, 294
Brontë siblings, xx
allegiances among, 32–33, 39, 156
literary influences on, 7, 106
made-up language of, 9
miniature books created by, 4–12, 18, 24, 27, 28, 33, 36, 54, 55, 124, 235, 248, 250, 259
myths about, xxiv, 253
pets of, 2, 29, 36, 54, 78, 96–98, 100–101, 104–6, 115–22
walking on the moor by, 64–68
Brontë Society, 250–51, 266
Brooks, Eliza, 231
Brown, Eliza, 52
Brown, Francis, 248
Brown, John, 128, 187, 246, 266
Brown, Martha, 191, 210, 235, 246–48, 263, 280, 283
Brown, Robinson, 248, 263
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 103, 228, 249
Brown’s Temperance Hotel and Museum of Brontë Relics, 248
Brussels, 19, 56, 119, 124, 126, 141, 142, 146, 149, 181–82
Bull and George Inn, 166
bulldogs, 97, 113, 114, 120
bulls, 40
baiting of, 97, 114
Bull’s Head Inn, 132
Burke, William, 26
Burns, Robert, 89–90, 115, 239–40
Byam, Eliza, 164
Bynum, Caroline Walker, xxiii
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 25, 38, 74, 106, 137, 181, 229
Caldwell, Lloyd, and Co., 182
Cambridge University, 3, 14, 71, 75
St. John’s College of, 20
Campbell, Margaret, 239–40
Campbell, Mark, 200
Canterbury, 72
Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer), 72
“Caroline Vernon” (C. Brontë), 204
Carroll, Lewis, 13, 50–51, 164, 264
Carson, Anne, 92–93
Catherine of Siena, Saint, 70, 266
Catholicism, xxiii, 188
Cato (dog), 122, 275
cats, 98, 99, 103, 104, 116, 118, 120
Charlemagne, 202, 285
Charles II, King of England, 10, 202
Charles X, King of France, 48
Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle (Shorter), 248
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 72
Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, 248
Chitham, Edward, 162, 274
Clarke’s Enigmatic Puzzle Wafers, 1
39–40
Clear Shining Light (Leakey), 189
Clergy Daughters’ School, 3–4
clothing, xxi–xxii, 198
of Brontë sisters, 68, 80, 224, 240, 246, 247, 294
making and mending of, 56–57, 60
recycling of, 23–24
Colburn, Henry, 177
Cold Comfort Farm (Gibbons), 252–53
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 71, 74, 76
collies, 118
Collins, Wilkie, 232
Cook, Florence, 208
Coriolanus (Shakespeare), 28
Cornhill Magazine, 106
corpses, xxi, 188, 192–93, 209
burial of, 26–27
cremation of, xxii, 25
death masks of, xxi, 189, 207, 242
dissection of, 26, 28, 196
eroticism of, 197
grave goods included with, 195–96
locks of hair from, xxi, 24, 25, 186, 189–90, 195–96, 199–200, 248, 284
mass graves of, 209
parts and fragments of, 25–26
pictures of, xxi, 189, 190, 210
revival of, 28
robbing graves for, 26, 262
Coryate, Thomas, 76
Cowan Bridge, 3, 39, 48
Cox, David, 231
crafts, 54–55, 124, 180, 214
Cranford (Gaskell), 201
Crimean War of 1854, 216, 232
Cruelty to Animals Act of 1876, 97
Crystal Palace, 45, 48, 51, 212–14
Darwin, Charles, 71, 111
Dash (dog), 101–2
David Copperfield (Dickens), 232–33
Davies, Stevie, 111
Davy, Humphry, 30–31
Dawson, Hannah, 210
death, xxiii–xxiv, 226
by drowning, xxiv, 25
“goodness” of, 188–89, 198
overcoming of, 27–28
by suicide, 195
Victorian view of, xxi, 25–28, 188–90, 192–93, 197, 207–10
see also corpses
De La Rue and Co., 230
deodand, xxiv
De Quincey, Thomas, 75
desks, 157–70, 279–80
of Anne, 173–74
of Anthony Trollope, 167–68
of Charlotte, 160–61, 167, 172, 175–76, 179, 279
design of, 163–64, 167
of Dickens, 167
of Emily, 159–60, 169–70, 172, 181–83, 186
of Jane Austen, 166, 167
locking of, 159, 164
portable, 159–68, 212
storage areas in, 161–65, 166–67
tin boxes in, 161–62, 279
writing slopes of, 160, 164, 166
“D.G.C. to J.A.” (E. Brontë), 64
Dickens, Charles, 13, 71, 103, 115, 167, 177, 189, 205, 242, 247
works of, 188–89, 204, 232–33, 282
Dickens, Katey, 189
Dickens Museum, 247, 282
Dickinson, Emily, 91
disease, 209, 218
see also specific diseases
Docwra, Mary Jesup, 228–29
Dodgson, Charles, see Carroll, Lewis
dogs, 40, 100, 111, 235, 245, 254, 271–73
breeds of, 97, 101
collars of, 97, 112–15, 117, 122, 273–75
death of, 121, 124
draft, 97
fighting, 105, 120, 239
hunting, 112, 113, 117
kidnapping of, 102–3
lurcher, 101, 272
pet, 2, 29, 54, 78, 96–98, 100–106, 115–22, 124, 160, 191
portraits of, 102, 113, 115–17, 118
rabid, 105–6
taxation of, 112
working, 97, 113–14
see also specific dogs and breeds
dog shows, 97
Dombey and Son (Dickens), 188–89
Donne, John, 197, 284
dreams, 10–11
Driver, Mr., 6, 36
Dublin, 155, 221
Dyer, Matthew, 112
Eliot, George, 13, 162–63, 208, 249, 279
Emma (C. Brontë), 152
Enoch, Frederick, 229
Eos (dog), 102
Eos, A Favorite Greyhound (Landseer), 113
Epps, Dr., 191
Essays (Bacon), 24
Evans, Mary Ann, see Eliot, George
“evil eye,” xxiii, 203
evolution theory, 71
Family Friend, 205
Fancy gang (dog stealers), 102–3
Far from the Madding Crowd (Hardy), 138, 200
Feather, Edwin, 246–47
feminism, 57–58, 80, 91, 268
Feodora, Princess, 207
“Fern Collector’s Album, The,” 227
ferns, 66, 88, 212, 213–20, 288–89
albums of, 225–27, 232, 233, 288
craze for, 214–19, 225–27
as decorative motifs, 214–15, 216
names derived from, 215, 218
self-sustaining environments for, 213–16, 217–18
fern ware, 214–15
Firth, Elizabeth, 20
Flossy (dog), 101, 102, 115–17, 120–21, 160, 191, 223, 274
flowers, 219, 231, 232, 251
Flush (dog), 102–3
Forrer, Antoni, 199
Fox, Henry Lane, xii
France, 75, 98–99, 142
Frederick, Prince of Wales, 114
Freedgood, Elaine, xxiii
French language, 125, 137, 213, 229, 241
French Revolution, 80
funeral feasts (“arvills”), 27
galvanism, 125
Gap of Dunloe, 226
Gardiner, William, 227
Garrard, 207
Garrs, Sarah, 202, 260, 285
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 27, 84, 91, 92, 106, 135, 145, 189–90, 201, 238, 244
on Charlotte, 4–5, 6, 175, 179, 224, 243
on Emily, 91
see also specific works
Gérin, Winifred, 252, 253
German language, 29, 269
Gezari, Janet, 86, 269
ghosts, xx, 205–6, 208
Gibbons, Stella, 252–53
Gilbert, Sandra, 153
Gillott, Joseph, 174–75
Gladstone, William E., 21–22
“Glass Essay, The” (Carson), 92–93
Glasstown Confederacy stories (Brontës), 7, 26, 39
Glenny, George, 216
God, xxiv, 20, 43–44, 70, 81, 194, 209, 216
Goldsmith, Oliver, 31–32
“Gondal Poems” (E. Brontë), 159, 169, 217
Gondal stories (E. Brontë and A. Brontë), 37–38, 39, 74, 82–83, 158, 159, 170, 172–74, 176
Graham, James, 141
Grasper (dog), 98, 115, 116, 117
Great Britain, xxiii, 45, 59
ancient Romans in, 98
Great Danes, 114–15
Great Exhibition of 1851, 45, 48, 51, 164, 212–13, 221, 225
Great Irish hounds, 101, 113
Greek language, 106, 125, 214
Greenwood, John, 133, 246, 261, 293
greeting cards, 133, 214, 219, 224–25, 232
greyhounds, 102
Gubar, Susan, 153
hair, 202–7
dog, 122
jewelry made of, 186, 195, 196, 199–207, 210, 284–86
locks of, xxi, 24–25, 50, 128–29, 161, 186, 189–90, 195–96, 199–210, 232, 242, 248, 2184
religious significance of, 202–3
sewing with, 45, 199
Hale, Charles, 238–39, 245, 246
Halifax, 21, 77, 118–19, 229
“Happy Thought” (Stevenson), xix
Hardinge, Henry, 22
Hardy, Thomas, 138, 200, 239, 292
Hare, William, 26
“Harry and Lucy” (Ruskin), 13
Haworth, 2–3, 21, 40, 45, 66, 68–69, 78, 83–84, 88, 97, 105, 133, 142, 146, 234–35
literary pilgrimages to, 88–89, 90–93, 234, 238–40, 245–46,
254–55
parsonage in, 2–4, 9–10, 15, 23, 26–29, 37–38, 56, 67, 91–92, 118, 119, 133, 135, 168–69, 216, 221, 238–39, 246, 250, 254
Haworth Church, 93, 225, 239, 245, 247
graveyard of, 27, 91
vault in, 91, 121, 192, 193, 242, 245
heather, 65, 84, 87, 88, 240, 265
Heger, Claire Zoë, 142, 143–47, 277
Heger, Constantin, 149, 183, 221, 241
Charlotte’s letters to, 142–46, 148, 154, 169, 277
Heger, Louise, 144–45
Heger, Paul, 145
Heidegger, Martin, 258
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne, 228, 231
High Water at Bolton Bridge game, 183, 282
History of a Pin, The, 51
History of British Birds (Bewick), 31, 117
History of Rome (Goldsmith), 31–32
“History of the Rebellion in My Fellows” (B. Brontë), 23
Hobbes, Thomas, 70, 74
Hogg, James, 6
Holy Land, 239
Homer, 20
Hornby, Lady Emilia, 232
Horsley, Elvira, 195
Horsley, John Callcott, 195
Housekeeping (Robinson), xix
Hucks, Joseph, 71
Hudson, William, 246
Hughes, Ted, 92
Huidekoper, Emma Cullum, 92
Hunt, J., 175
Hunt, Leigh, 25
hyperemesis gravidarum, 243
Iliad (Homer), 20
Illustrations of Political Economy (Martineau), 129
Imitation of Christ (Thomas à Kempis), 23
insects, 98, 100
Ireland, 59, 220, 221, 233, 245
Island of Man, 10
Italy, 25, 75
Jane Eyre (C. Brontë), xx, xxiii, 28–29, 30, 31, 46, 47, 58–59, 60, 61, 65, 77, 100, 117, 126, 143, 152, 153, 165–66, 173, 178, 181, 187, 212, 218–20, 224, 233
apostles cabinet in, xx–xxi
composition of, 178–80
Ferndean Manor in, 218, 219, 233
Gateshead in, 31, 218, 220
Lowood school in, 4, 12, 32, 48, 59–60, 152, 218
Moor House in, 47, 206, 218
publication of, 4, 14, 156, 178, 179–80
revision of, 181
Thornfield Hall in, xxi, 47, 58, 77, 178, 206, 218–19
Jesus Christ, 70, 202, 239, 241
“Jeune Malade, Le” (Millevoye), 229
John of God, Saint, 70, 266
Joinville, Prince de, 241
Jones, Robert, 75
Kant, Immanuel, 258
Keats, John, 25, 85, 89, 90, 195, 239, 270, 292
Keeper (dog), 29, 96–98, 100–101, 104–6, 108, 116–22, 160, 191, 271, 272, 274
death of, 121
dog collar of, 97, 112, 115, 122
Keighley, 4, 8, 23, 53, 57, 69, 78, 91, 239
Kennel Club, 97
Killarney, 225, 226
Kingsley, Charles, 214, 288
labor:
domestic, 36–37, 40–47, 54, 61
hand, 13, 41–47, 52–61